stable: update documentation to ask for kernel version

It would save me an email round-trip asking which stable tree(s) that a
patch should be applied to, so document that the tree number should be
specified in the email request.

Reported-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
index 21fd05c28e738e146b313081bbd4294687ddabdf..f0ab5cf28fcae0a1ff0783bf8a4ddc477447f585 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
 
  - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
    stable@vger.kernel.org.  You must note the upstream commit ID in the
-   changelog of your submission.
+   changelog of your submission, as well as the kernel version you wish
+   it to be applied to.
  - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to